Quotes About Standing Tall

#1. You got up off the bathroom floor. That's a start. Now, just stay off the floor. After all - aside from winning the lottery - all any of us can ever really hope for is more days spent standing tall than spent in pieces on the floor.

Sarah Spann

#2. The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.

Jeff Miller

#3. It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.

Agona Apell

#4. I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back;
I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall
I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.

Jon Bon Jovi

#5. I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

Jane Fonda

#6. Whatever the path that brought you here
There is a reason why you came,
Though you may not realize it now.
Therefore,please open your ears.
Listen to the message that Sedona has for you. The old juniper standing tall in the golden sunset just might tell you the reason.

Ilchi Lee

#7. Character is standing tall and guiding others.

Saru Singhal

#8. Standing 'tall' at 5 ft' is a serious 'high

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#9. Years ago
I was an angry young man
I'd pretend
that I was a billboard
standing tall
by the side of the road
I fell in love
with the beautiful highway

David Byrne

#10. This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#11. But always and sometimes questioning the old modes
And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor,
Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual
Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now,
Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.

John Ashbery

#12. Because this is you now. This is the woman you are today. You're standing tall. You've come through this and no one is going to hurt you again. I love you.

Irene Kelly

#13. Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#14. Was so proud that night, so self-possessed, standing tall, fully inhabited. I owned myself, felt fully mine to give.

Elisa Albert

#15. He's as tall as the door, and I'm standing here without remembering the walk across the shadowed parking lot. When he turns to face me the world grinds into slow motion. Even my heartbeat draws out interminably.

Poppet

#16. Dahlia felt the cabin was growing smaller with each introduction. Each man stood tall with wide shoulders and bulky muscles. She felt ridiculous standing near them.

Christine Feehan

#17. The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

David Icke

#18. Sit. I can't flirt standing up, and you're freakishly tall.

Heidi Cullinan

#19. What's with you all, anyway? You jam a stick up your own arse then preen at how tall and straight your standing.

Steven Erikson

#20. He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,

David McCullough

#21. I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

Patti LaBelle

#22. When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

Julia Child

#23. He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#24. Physically as well as psychologically, Dickinson was the opposite of Adams: tall and gaunt, with a somewhat ashen complexion and a deliberate demeanor that conveyed the confidence of his social standing in the Quaker elite and his legal training at the Inns of Court in London.

Joseph J. Ellis

#25. I could see tall ideas standing up behind his eyes.

Walter Kirn

#26. No, I just wanted to recapture the incredibly vivid love we'd had at first- the love I'd shared with the tall man standing next to me, with the man I adored.

Banana Yoshimoto

#27. All people are standing; you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds; you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less; rise up and stand tall in what you do!

Israelmore Ayivor

#28. My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.

Eric Clapton

#29. In her daydreams, they aged miraculously, she still trim with a blond ponytail, standing next to her strong, tall husband with his thick, curly dark hair and straight white teeth. Money was never an issue.

Karen Jones Gowen

#30. There is nothing little," she said with great dignity, "about my husband." Sarek did not at first understand the amused ripple that went through the crowd of reporters standing around. Certainly he was tall by Earth standards. He had to have it explained to him,

Diane Duane

#31. Too tall, standing up. In bed he was very much the right size.

Eileen Wilks

#32. He didn't mean to corner me, but when you're as tall and wide as he is and I'm as little as I am, merely standing beside me constitutes menacement.

Justine Larbalestier

#33. You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Harriett Woods

#34. In 1961, at age seventy, standing just four feet ten inches tall and weighing ninety-eight pounds, Kline became Disneyland's first Tinker Bell.

Jim Korkis

#35. A tree there towere Tall and branching That house upholding The hall's wonder Its leaves their hangings Its limbs rafters Its mighty bole In the midst standing.

J.R.R. Tolkien